Announcing a new MBA Scholarship for Employees

Feb. 20, 2015

The Leeds School of Business is pleased to announce the launch of a new scholarship program aimed at supporting ŷڱƵ-Boulder employees, allowing them to earn an MBA from the Leeds Evening MBA program.

Google recognizes two ŷڱƵ-Boulder programs that use creativity to teach kids to code

Feb. 19, 2015

Two University of ŷڱƵ Boulder programs that teach kids to code have received Google RISE Awards to support their efforts to attract girls and underrepresented minorities to computer science. The two programs are the Scalable Game Design project, which hooks kids on coding by empowering them to build their own video games, and AspireIT, which connects high school and college women with K-12 girls interested in computing.

ŷڱƵ-Boulder ranks No. 6 nationally for Peace Corps volunteers

Feb. 17, 2015

The University of ŷڱƵ Boulder is ranked No. 6 in the nation for graduates serving as Peace Corps volunteers with 62 alumni currently serving around the world, the Peace Corps announced today. In the annual Top Colleges list, ŷڱƵ-Boulder has held a position in the top eight nationally among large institutions for the past 13 years, ranking in the top three for nine of those years. ŷڱƵ-Boulder also has been the state leader among ŷڱƵ institutions of similar size each year since 2003.

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ŷڱƵ-Boulder technology for thinner electronics commercialized by Kelvin Thermal of Boulder

Feb. 17, 2015

Kelvin Thermal Technologies and the University of ŷڱƵ have executed an exclusive license agreement that will allow the company to develop and market thermal management technologies that could enable the development of ultra-thin and flexible smartphones, wearable electronics and other commercial and military systems.

Leeds School Evening MBA Program to expand to ŷڱƵ South Denver in May

Feb. 16, 2015

The Evening MBA Program , offered by the ŷڱƵ-Boulder’s Leeds School of Business, is going south -- in a good way. Beginning in May, the program -- offered since 2000 on the ŷڱƵ-Boulder campus -- also will be available at the Liniger Building at ŷڱƵ South Denver , located at 10035 Peoria St. in Parker, ŷڱƵ.

It takes more than merit: Alma mater’s prestige highly predictive of faculty placement

Feb. 12, 2015

A new study finds that small differences in institutional prestige have an enormous impact on the likelihood that a person who graduates with a doctoral degree will land a coveted faculty job. The advantage of alma mater prestige in finding a job is so great that it cannot be explained solely by a difference in educational quality between the universities, according to the study, led by the University of ŷڱƵ Boulder and published today in the journal Science Advances.

ŷڱƵ Law School to host inaugural Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative at ŷڱƵ Law Lecture

Feb. 9, 2015

John A. Ikard, president and CEO of FirstBank Holding Company, will deliver a talk titled "Leading an Ethical Organization in a Sometimes Unethical World" on Thursday, Feb. 19, at 5:30 p.m. in the Wittemyer Courtroom at the Wolf Law Building on the University of ŷڱƵ Boulder campus.

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Visiting conservative scholar finalist to speak at ŷڱƵ-Boulder

Feb. 4, 2015

The University of ŷڱƵ Boulder has announced Thomas Krannawitter, Ph.D., as a finalist for the position of Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy for the 2015-16 academic year. Krannawitter will visit the ŷڱƵ-Boulder campus and give a talk titled “The Problem of Slavery in the American Founding.” He will explore what the existence of slavery in the early days of the United States, and efforts made to end it, tell us today about the American character.

New report charts ŷڱƵ's vulnerability to climate change

Feb. 3, 2015

Sea-level rise may not be eating away at ŷڱƵ’s borders, but climate change exposes other critical vulnerabilities in the state, according to a new report. Rising temperatures likely will take a toll on cattle and crops, for example, and could more often leave junior water rights holders with little water and few options.

New study details how cocaine really works in the brain, offers possibility of drug to treat addiction

Feb. 3, 2015

A research team led by the University of ŷڱƵ Boulder has discovered a mechanism in the brain that is key to making cocaine seem pleasurable, a finding that could lead to a drug treatment for fighting addiction. The findings build on past research also involving ŷڱƵ-Boulder that found the same mechanism in the brain also interacts with heroin, oxycodone, morphine and other opioid drugs to amplify their addictiveness. The latest study suggests that the mechanism plays a key role in the addictiveness of many abused drugs, possibly including methamphetamine and alcohol.

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